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We live in north Raleigh not far from a substation; the neighborhood has underground power distribution all the way to the substation. Did not lose power. Even after Hurricane Fran, we lost power for only 48 hours.
I don't remember that one, but I can't remember yesterday. I hope
he is right about a late December storm. I'll take snow, ice, whatever,
I can't get enough of it! A bad ice storm is better than the best day in
that god forsaken season known as summer!
I wasn't here for the 2002 storm and the ice storm of '78 on Long Island was enough. Ice storm should be a once-in-a-lifetime event!
Incidentally....the icestorm of December 2002 was followed by a second icestorm just 2 months later in February 2003! (The latter was not nearly as severe as the first, however)
Incidentally....the icestorm of December 2002 was followed by a second icestorm just 2 months later in February 2003! (The latter was not nearly as severe as the first, however)
I remember that. The early 2000s was home to 2 huge storms here and much hyped misses not long after.
The Carolina Crusher dumped 20+ inches of snow in late Jan 2000. Then in Dec 2000, right around Christmas, Greg Fishel comes on with a snow map with similar accumulation totals. The storm doesnt phase right, we get no snow, Greenville gets 6+" and Fishel never went out on a limb with big snow forecasts again (not that we really had any after 2000).
The 2 short months after the Dec 2002 ice storm disaster, they were predicting similar death and destruction, because the surface was very cold. Well, the cold air held (but a bit warmer than expected) but the precipitation came in much heavier which didn't allow the same kind of accretion to take place, so all we had was a glaze.
I remember walking outside to start the generator and hearing the trees cracking all around me was an eerie sound that I still remember today. It was actually dangerous to be outside walking around any trees lest you be hit by falling branches full of ice.
I remember walking outside to start the generator and hearing the trees cracking all around me was an eerie sound that I still remember today. It was actually dangerous to be outside walking around any trees lest you be hit by falling branches full of ice.
Yep.
We were on the deck for less than 5 minutes, and I told the wife, "Let's get the heck back into the house."
20 years later, trees have grown but still show the scars.
It probably would have been worse, if Fran and Floyd hadn't taken out so many trees a few years before. For that matter, likewise for those of us along the path of the 1988 tornado.
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We were living in North Hill at the time. Everybody on my street left but us because we had dogs. The gas logs were a life saver.
